Project reports
The Cap Anamur project reports describe the work of our teams on site, provide insights and depict current developments in the aid project.
We are in daily contact with our project manager Faisal Hadari in order to be able to assess the situation on site correctly at any time. Many of our local employees continue to work for us and ensure that medical training and care can continue.
The current situation of our projects in Afghanistan
We are with our projects in Herat, the second largest city in Afghanistan. In addition to a training program for nurses, we also oversee a dialysis unit and a tutoring project for low-income students.
Already two weeks ago, the new rulers visited our projects and our aid organization was assigned a contact person in the new regime.
We were asked to continue the work, but to separate the training classes by gender. We had already made this separation at the beginning of the current training course, because we have always been in exchange with local decision-makers of the Afghan government, and this separation was desired earlier.
The training of the female participants has been allowed to continue up to now, since it can be assumed that the Taliban will continue to be very interested in providing medical care to the population in the future. And women contribute to this to a certain extent.
A very up-to-date assessment of the situation is given by our project manager Faisal Haidari:
“Our projects in Herat will continue until further notice. There are only women in the current nursing class. They may now only be taught and instructed by female professionals. This can be organized because the provincial hospital usually has a large pool of female doctors, midwives and nurses. How many of the professional staff have fled the country is difficult to estimate at the moment!
The continued support of the dialysis department of the provincial hospital is heavily dependent on material replenishment. Overpricing of materials in the event of scarcity is to be feared. However, we currently still have sufficient dialysis sets in stock to be able to operate without restriction.
Our tutoring project is directly affected by the Taliban’s hostility towards women and education. It would be too risky to continue teaching as we have been doing. For the time being, only boys are taught by teachers. It is quite possible that the Taliban will only allow women access to education up to a certain age. Also, many training and academic professions, such as law or engineering, may be banned for women under their rule.
The central questions of these days should be: “How can we continue to help the Afghan civilian population? How can we convey to the people that we don’t want to abandon them?” is how our project manager sums up the situation on the ground.
Cap Anamur will prioritize the continuation of the projects in order to provide professional perspectives and improve medical care in the country for as long as possible. Because we don’t want to let people down and offer them a perspective that they lacked for so many years.